Silly Little Monsters!

Hey gang! Sorry I haven't written in a few days, but my arthritis has been terrible. I am much better today though, and spent the morning in my craftroom making silly monsters! I am having a group of young card makers over to my house this Saturday to do some paper crafting and thought these cute little guys would be fun to create. The gift tag opens with a scored hinge to make it easy to write a birthday message and fastens to the bag with ribbon ties. It's topped off with a glitzed up crown and several different sizes of circle punched shapes create the face and beauty warts. The bookmarks are made from a folded 6"square of paper and love to munch the corner of a good book! I love crafting with kids and these projects will give them a chance to experiment with different tools and learn a few new techniques. From what I hear they are as excited as I am to get crafting! See you guys on Staurday :)

Two Step Bird Punch Bookmark

I did a little experiment today, I made my own fun foam rubber stamp.  I die cut two flourish shapes out of fun foam, stacked and adhered them to another piece of fun foam. I stamped the background of this little bookmark with my homemade stamp and Versamark ink, added some antique gold embossing powder and heat set it. I'll bet if I never told you that's how I made it, you'd have never guessed it!
I inked the background with Broken Dishes and Vintage Photo Distress inks, water splotched, added an embossed medallion and two birds using SU! Two Step Bird punch. The dots are Distress Stickles in a brown shade, sorry forgot the name, finished with a sheer brown ribbon tie.
Oh ya, almost forgot, my new Distress inks finally arrived today!! I got 8 new colours, so tomorrow will be a 'craftroom day' for sure!

Bookmark

Hey gang, just a quick post to show you all the bookmark we are making the night we do the Four Flower Card. It features Tim Holtz Distress inks in Broken Dishes, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick and Vintage Photo. It will give everyone a chance to get familiar with the new tools, blending techniques and 'water splotching'. I used a Sissix flower die to cut the felt flower and I learned a cool new way to add jute string to buttons with no knots or bulk behind the button that we can try. This bookmark is based on card by Jennifer McGuire, a designer for Hero Arts and Ranger, and was featured in her "Thinking Inking" course, which I really enjoyed.
I can't wait to share these new inks and card making techniques with you! We're in for a fun night!! For those of you who won't be able to join us, I'll post the pictures and maybe we can get together soon for a card night!